Self Employed
If you love to travel and find yourself daydreaming about your next destination, you might want to consider a job that involves exploring new locations. Here are some occupations that require travel as a normal part of the job description, offer more variety, but requires you to budget well between occasional long stretches between gigs.
What are the top 10 freelance jobs that allow you to travel?
But what about if you’re a little more free-spirited and don’t want to be tied down to an employer? How can you travel at will and work for yourself at the same time? It might be easier than you think. Here are our top ten best freelancing gigs for people who love to travel.
10) Rent out your place
No work involved here at all, apart from finding a property manager to cut the grass and mend the leaks while you spend the rent. Apart from hiring out your own place, if you have savings, you could consider investing in more properties to increase your income. You could get big bucks by advertising your pad to travellers on places like Airbnb.
9) Social-media marketing
Maybe you’re always on Facebook or Twitter anyway, so why not make a little money while you’re at it? For many businesses, keeping their social-media accounts up to date is a headache they can do without. For the digital nomad like you, however, it’s perfect.You’ll need to get up to speed on your clients’ businesses and be able to reproduce the right tone of voice, but knocking out a few Twitter posts or running Facebook ads each day isn’t hard.
8) Web design
Web design isn’t rocket science. You can pick up the basics of WordPress within a few weeks. Do you need to have a talent for design? Not if you use ready-made templates from sites such as wix.com. Try building a site for yourself first – maybe about travel. You’ll get valuable experience and, if it looks good and works well, it’ll be a great advert for your services.
7) Trading
If you know what you’re doing, self-employed trading can be one of the best travel jobs. You can make plenty of cash dabbling in forex and stocks. You’ll need to start with a decent wedge, though, and be aware that the stock markets are a place where you can also lose plenty of money. Probably best to spread your bets with another money-maker on the side.
6) Copywriting
Got a way with words? There are plenty of businesses that need their websites, blogs and promotional materials are written professionally, and you can do freelance copywriting on a beach in Thailand if you can ignore the distractions.
There are plenty of ‘word farm’ sites out there, such as Freelancer.com, where you bid for work, but these can be very poorly paid. A better route could be working from home for a while to establish a base of dependable clients who’ll pay you well, then grabbing your laptop and take off for sunnier climes.
